Looks like the "su" to root works. What I don't understand is how this is
any more secure than being able to login as root directly.?
thx,
dick
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From: Lindsay Haisley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Dick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, December 20, 1998 11:04 PM
Subject: Re: How can I login as "root" from a telnet session?
>Root telnet login is disabled for very good security reasons. You'd be
>best to set up a user account on the machines you need to access and run su
>or sudo from said user account. If your login supports /etc/login.access
>you >may< be able to configure it to allow remote root login, but I wasn't
>able to.
>
>With regard to your .a libraries, you may be running a different
>development platform on the SCO box. Linux boxes generally run the GNU
>dev. env.
>
>At 10:12 PM 12/20/98 -0600, Dick did speak as follows....
>>>>>
>1. Anyone out there know how I can allow a telnet session to log into RH
>5.2 Linux as root. I am maintaining systems in the field and sometimes
>need to login as root from a remote site.
>
>2. Interesting situation: I am porting from SCO OpenServer 5.0.4 and
>after moving everything over to RH Linux 5.2, I ran my program. It seemed
>to run WITHOUT compiling on Linux! I was shocked. Then I went to change
>something and tried to compile. It seems that the libraries "xxx.a" files
>that came over in the move are NOT compatible with the Linux Linker.
>Anyway on SCO to MAKE them compatible (some flag or switch in the "ln"?),
>or is there something I can do under Linux to make it recognize what SCO
>put out in the form of "xxx.a"'s.
>
>thx,
>dick
>
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